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Good. There’s no reason iMessage should force me to be stuck. It’s stupid. Jailbreak apps becoming possible as legal use of an iPhone now makes me kind of excited for the future….
 
If you believe this, you may as well believe that people who want to preserve their privacy only do so because the majority of them are criminals or are up to shady activities.
Lol? You mean people who want to enjoy their device for its power and not be forced to what apple says is good for me?

You’re not FORCED to use it. If I want jailbreak ipa’s to work without a jailbreak… man I’d NEVER leave an iphone again. This also gives apple full leverage to figure out which kind of tweaks people enjoy and implement them into iOS in a better way.

This is all around so much better for apple. Please stop forcing me to be stuck with iMessage.
 
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If you believe this, you may as well believe that people who want to preserve their privacy only do so because the majority of them are criminals or are up to shady activities.
Yep, the crazy…
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!
…arguments.
 
Until the key apps you wish to use choose to exit the app store, leaving you with a dilemma of eschewing those apps or opening your device up.

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Or key fake apps show up on sites pretending to be Apple and trick people into entering their credit card info or just side load a copy that has been compromised and records and transmits your banking credentials
 
Or key fake apps show up on sites pretending to be Apple and trick people into entering their credit card info or just side load a copy that has been compromised and records and transmits your banking credentials

Good point. Faceb00k, Instagam, TikTok, Whatzapp, etc... :D
 
DMA will force Apple to enter competition again - finally.

Before DMA, Apple avoided competition by “lock customers in, lock competition out”.
Imagine Messengers that implement a common chat protocol like RCS or XMPP. The messaging protocol will act like html and everyone can select the messenger of choice. Remove iMessage (bloated and buggy) and install Signal as your standard messenger.
Choose the best payment system, let e.g. PayPal enter the platform and start to compete with Apples InApp payment system.


Those who do not move with the times, move with the times, Apple. With DMA Apple is finally forced to change into a service company.
 
You're not "stuck" with iMessage. You can turn it off in settings.

Then you can send SMS messages to any phone on Earth.
I think you missed the point here. SMS isn’t useful. RCS adoption should be a part of the iMessage app. Google is doing it right and it could become a full worldwide standard if apple would play ball with Google. Carriers would finally adopt. RCS works just as good as iMessage. I sent SMS in 7th grade.. I’m 35, it’s time to end SMS completely.
 
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The App Store at the start, was fantastic and allowed devs to reach a huge audience and not have to set up billing and distribution systems. Consumers got a (mostly!) safe curated store.

Nowadays the App Store seems more about Apple jealously guarding its revenue from it and using it as a platform to claw additional incremental revenue - App Store ads, even more App Store ads and clamping down on anyone trying to sell anything without giving Apple their cut - NFTs and so on.
The App Store at the start was all about Apple jealously guarding its revenue from it and using it as a platform to claw additional incremental revenue. This is no surprise. Anyone who had a rose colored view that “Apple is doing this ALLL for the developers” and turned a blind eye to the fact that the App Store got bigger and bigger year after year, driving the success of apps like Telegram and Spotify, just weren’t paying attention.

If anything has changed, it’s that the EU has looked around, found itself in a position where it’s citizens are buying massive amounts of products and services that benefits countries outside the EU more than inside the EU, have realized that they have no effective way of competing as they’ve cut off the ability of EU companies to complete and, as a result, their only option is to make non-EU companies adhere to the same success killing regulations that have stymied competition inside the EU.

If the EU regulations would allow EU companies to create and profit from something like “Genshin Impact” there would be a different regulatory view.
 
A collapsing economy, turning off traffic lights or freezing to death, allowing the US to blow up your power supply while *still* kowtowing to us, Europe is the epitome of a client state. All the virtue signaling in the world is not going to save it from going to 3rd world status, they’ve already let in all the violent criminals, religious nutjobs, parasites on society from ********s all over the world. The apparatchiks of the EU police state will press its boot harder on the people of Europe until the day you decide you’ve had enough and start thinking for yourself instead of “just following orders” because it all worked out so well last time…
 
I think you missed the point here. SMS isn’t useful. RCS adoption should be a part of the iMessage app. Google is doing it right and it could become a full worldwide standard if apple would play ball with Google. Carriers would finally adopt. RCS works just as good as iMessage. I sent SMS in 7th grade.. I’m 35, it’s time to end SMS completely.

Ah I see, thanks.
 
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MORE COMPETITION drives innovation
MORE CHOICE for consumers
MORE competition? Right now, it’s Apple’s OS and Google’s OS. AFTER these changes proposed by the EU… it’ll still be Apple’s OS and Google’s OS.

MORE CHOICE? Right now, it’s a choice between Apple’s OS and Google’s OS. AFTER these changes proposed by the EU… it’ll still be a choice between Apple’s OS and Google’s OS.

The EU is just solidifying the preeminence of Apple and Google ensuring that those two companies see no competition in the EU for the foreseeable future.
 
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I think you missed the point here. SMS isn’t useful. RCS adoption should be a part of the iMessage app. Google is doing it right and it could become a full worldwide standard if apple would play ball with Google. Carriers would finally adopt. RCS works just as good as iMessage. I sent SMS in 7th grade.. I’m 35, it’s time to end SMS completely.
their is no iMessage APP, Carriers do not want to adopt RCS they would have done so already the few in the us are ditching it
 
MORE competition? Right now, it’s Apple’s OS and Google’s OS. AFTER these changes proposed by the EU… it’ll still be Apple’s OS and Google’s OS.

MORE CHOICE? Right now, it’s a choice between Apple’s OS and Google’s OS. AFTER these changes proposed by the EU… it’ll still be a choice between Apple’s OS and Google’s OS.

The EU is just solidifying the preeminence of Apple and Google ensuring that those two companies see no competition in the EU for the foreseeable future.
Isn't its a lot easier for EU to deal with fewer companies? If this was totally the other way, they would be forever complaining then pointing the finger at their favorite two targets.
 
The EU regulated their way into technology obsolescence, and now they’re trying to regulate their way back into competitiveness at the expense of American companies.
American companies, cough - cough, yep e.g. ARM is totally American. 🙄

Just like the German Intel Department a.k.a. Infineon/Siemens, bought by Apple, who is now developing Apples Modem to compete with Qualcomm. And the Sony lenses Apples uses are also American, just like the Samsung displays Apple uses, and the Hynix RAM modules. 🙄

Dreams are your reality?!

But I must agree, Americans aren’t stupid like Europeans, Americans don’t give everything easily out of their hands, this stupidity is probably too deep in European genes, sharing is caring.

Many “American” companies were founded on European companies roots.
 
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That will probably fall into gatekeeping, simply because Apple does not have to pay 27% for their own Apps, a unfair advantage and anticompetitive.
I’m sure Apple will try, but risky try and fail.
I ask because that's basically what happened with dutch dating apps earlier this year.


Apple has made it clear that they see 27% as a platform fee, and not some arbitrary commission they are collecting from sales.

It's also not impossible that iOS penalises apps from third party app stores, citing security concerns. For example, apps purchased this way might not be able to access iCloud, or users may have to contend with periodic pop-ups (something like that clipboard saga with iOS 16).

I won't be surprised if seemingly isolated legal precedents suddenly all come together and allow Apple to effectively kneecap third party app stores before they even have a chance to take off.
 
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